Dr Jun-Yu Ou

Dr Jun-Yu Ou, known as Bruce Ou, is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Optoelectronic Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton. He started his career as an instrument specialist of scanning electron microscope (SEM) and focused ion beam (FIB) at FEI Company - a world-leading manufacturer of FIBs and electron microscopes.

In 2010 he joined the ORC to undertake his doctoral studies at the crossroads of photonics and nanotechnology. He completed his PhD on "Reconfigurable Photonic Metamaterials" in September 2014. For this work, he was awarded the prestigious Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Doctoral Prize fellowship to continue his research on his own research grant for an additional year. For his PhD thesis, he was awarded the Institute of Physics (London) Doctoral Research Prize in 2015. At the end of the EPSRC Doctoral Prize fellowship, he was appointed the project leader of nano-opto-mechanical metamaterials in the flagship EPSRC programme “Nanostructured Photonic Metamaterials” and then "The Physics and Technology of Photonic Metadevices and Metasystems" at the ORC.

His research interests lie in the area of plasmonic/dielectric nanomechanical reconfigurable metamaterials, nano-optomechanics, phonon-photon interaction, and motion detection for nano-objects.

Dr Ou has published more than 30 high-impact journal publications (h-index:16) and 98 conference contributions. He also possesses expert knowledge in nanotechnology with many years of experience in a wide range of nanofabrication techniques including e-beam lithography, FIB milling, photo-lithography, as well as a use of other advanced cleanroom equipment. He has previously delivered lectures and provided consultancy on nanofabrication for research institutions in Taiwan, Singapore and the UK.